Anyone got a dial in on the riots in France atm?

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cytg111

cytg111

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From the face of it and in particular how Fox is covering it

https://www.foxnews.com/world/thous...ear-gas-water-cannon-against-paris-protesters

has it ringing russian psy ops in my years in a split second.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/24/europe/france-protests-intl/index.html

"The objective was to unite everybody here in Paris. I am disappointed because it wasn't meant to be like this," Thierry Paul Valette, one of the organizers of Saturday's demonstration in Paris told CNN. "

There was a peaceful protest that was taken over by ... aggressive rioters? It has Putin written all over it.

I am in another EU country, we are facing the same restructuring to get away from fossils .. and 90% is like, yea, that makes sense, lets do it. Whats happening in France right now smells artificial as hell.
 
Jaskalas

Jaskalas

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cytg111 said:
I am in another EU country, we are facing the same restructuring to get away from fossils .. and 90% is like, yea, that makes sense, lets do it. Whats happening in France right now smells artificial as hell.
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Fox is chest thumping over the "fall" of socialist Europe and evil big government. How terrible their economy is due to government existence.
 
MomentsofSanity

MomentsofSanity

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Take off the tin foil. There's a particular group of people in France (the even have a name for them but it escapes me) that do this every time there is a protest. They come out solely to cause damage and havoc.
 
Jaskalas

Jaskalas

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Shared for the lols.

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WelshBloke

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cytg111 said:
I am in another EU country, we are facing the same restructuring to get away from fossils .. and 90% is like, yea, that makes sense, lets do it. Whats happening in France right now smells artificial as hell.
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The French love a good riot though. This happens a couple of times a year.
 
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Victorian Gray

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It's France. Riots are a national pastime.

2014, French farmers:

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A car burns in a bonfire during a protest by hundreds of farmers in Chalon-en-Champagne, France, on November 5, 2014.

Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images
 
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zinfamous

zinfamous

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man, Napoleon built those damn arches everywhere, didn't he? I think they even go as far south as Rome? Milan for sure. I forget how far he got
 
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pmv

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It's unfortunately easy to be cynical about French riots. They do sometimes seem like a recreational tradition. And the state seems very tolerant of them as long as the rioters are white. But I hate thinking that because there's also a positive tradition in there, going back to the Paris Commune and before to the Sans-Culottes. The French have a capacity for stroppiness, that can work for good or ill.

Edit - of course so do Americans. But I think maybe French stroppiness takes a more collectivist form, Americans are more individualist in their strop-throwing.
 
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K1052

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If there were not routine strikes/stoppages and also riots every couple years over something it wouldn't be France.
 
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